Ivanhoe Articles

Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion Joan Fontaine, who turned 94 last October 22, shines on Turner Classic Movies' tonight. TCM will be showing five Fontaine movies: Jane Eyre (1944), The Constant Nymph (1943), Born to Be Bad (1950), Suspicion (1941), and Ivanhoe (1952). I've yet to check out The Constant Nymph, which had been unavailable for decades until TCM presented it a few months [...]

Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine in Richard Thorpe's Ivanhoe (lower photo) Robert Taylor had some trouble early in his career because he was considered too pretty, with some complaining that he wore more makeup than Greta Garbo in Camille. As a result, MGM toughened him up in subsequent vehicles such as The Crowd Roars (1938), Billy the Kid (1941) and Johnny Eager (1942). By the 1950s, [...]

Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey in Forbidden Games FILM El Bruto / The Brute d: Luis Buñuel; scr: Luis Buñuel, Luiz Alcoriza Carrie d: William Wyler; scr: Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz Casque d’or / Golden Marie d: Jacques Becker; scr: Jacques Companéez The Crimson Pirate d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Roland Kibbee 5 Fingers d: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; scr: Michael Wilson High Noon d: Fred Zinnemann; scr: [...]